your baby isn’t broken. neither are your instincts.
The capitalist, patriarchal, culturally dominant machine — the one that declines to offer paid parental leave from work, has the highest maternal mortality rate amongst high-income nations, fails to offer affordable childcare, and gaslights mothers out of their intuition — that is what’s broken.
I founded Good Night Moon Child in 2021 to shift the paradigm of baby sleep. To help parents stop asking, “how do I get my baby to sleep?” and instead ask, “what does my baby need to feel safe enough to rest?
For the last 200 years, our dominant culture has expected — no, required — women to live and mother in a way that is incongruent with what we are biologically developed to do: nurture our babies. During the day, and at night.
This culture
separates mothers and babies too soon
pathologizes normal infant behavior
withholds structural support, then blames mothers for struggling
calls disconnection “independence”
Dependence is not a flaw in development. It’s the foundation of (later) independence.
We have been told this is what’s best for our children (and for us). But it isn’t.
Dependence is not a flaw in development. It’s the foundation of (later) independence.
My solution is equal parts sigh of relief and return to intuition
mother against the machine
Inside Cuddle Crew, our not-on-social-media community.
Why are you listening to an economist / an influencer / your MIL / anyone else about your baby’s sleep? What if the answer to your baby’s sleep already exists within you?
Sacred Sleep
May Cohort
We have been asked to mother against our and our babies’ biology. So many “sleep problems” simply dissolve once we stop asking babies to sleep alone. Babies are biologically designed to wake frequently, seek proximity, and nurse at night (McKenna). In fact, infant sleep is fragmented by design to protect against SIDS (Ball).
A baby who wakes at night is not broken. A baby who needs closeness is not manipulative. A baby who calls out is not a problem to solve. This baby is communicating.
Sacred Sleep is where modern science meets ancient wisdom. It’s a reclamation of the mother-baby bond as biologically intelligent and infant sleep as sacred. It’s a refusal to keep outsourcing maternal authority to systems that were never designed to support it. It’s a reckoning — and it’s already happening.
If you’ve ever felt like something about modern parenting advice doesn’t sit right in your body, you’re not wrong. You’re exactly right.
Hi, I’m Britt.
In October of 2020, I gave birth to my first child. I was transformed. I shifted away from a ten-year career working for a renowned global nonprofit and began exploring infant psychology and neurobiology.
I’ve been where you are. I understand the exhaustion, depletion, and anxiety of early motherhood.
I also know what it’s like to feel desperate for sleep solutions only to be faced with binary options: wait it out or cry it out.
Here’s what I learned: Since babies’ brains don't have the architecture to even begin to regulate on their own until they're 3-5 years old (the myth of self-soothing!), sleep training doesn't actually teach sleep. We have mistaken adaptation for well-being. We have normalized a system that asks mothers to betray their instincts. A system that actively undermines a baby’s potential to become a secure, independent, and healthily attached adult.
But it’s bigger than sleep. We’re also seeing skyrocketing rates of maternal anxiety and depletion, chronic stress in developing nervous systems, and a generation of parents wondering why something feels off when they’re “doing everything right".
When mothers are given accurate information about infant biology – when they understand what is normal, when they are supported in responding instead of resisting – their entire existence is altered.
Infant sleep is not something to train. The mother-baby relationship is not an obstacle to overcome,
I’ve worked with thousands of families and trained practitioners around the world in a radically different approach to infant sleep—one rooted in biology, nervous system science, attachment, and ancient wisdom.
And now, I’m extending that invitation to you. Let motherhood change you.
Integrative Infant Sleep™
Raising kids that are wired for connection is so much bigger than the debate of cosleeping vs sleep training. But the shared struggle all parents face — the reason you’re Googling “how much crying is too much crying?” — is sleep. The answer to your baby’s sleep isn’t on the internet. But it might be here. So get started. It may just save the next generation.
This is bigger than baby sleep. Sleep is just where the rupture becomes impossible to ignore.